Electronics Technology (IELT), Certificate

The Electronics Technology certificate provides evening students with the entry-level skills and theoretical knowledge needed to design and troubleshoot circuits utilizing the latest semiconductor devices, biomedical devices, microprocessors and microcontrollers. Graduates from this program are prepared to enter the industry as assemblers, troubleshooters, calibration technicians and field service technicians. The course of study includes: basic electricity and electronics; digital electronics; microprocessors; and microcontrollers. Students may choose to utilize theses credits to continue on for an AAS Degree in either Industrial Controls & Robotics or Electronics Technology. Arts & Sciences curriculum supports the technical coursework by enhancing the students' communication, mathematics and critical thinking skills.

The following sample academic plan demonstrates how a student's schedule might look on a semester-by-semester basis, including elective courses. Your actual degree plan may differ from this sequence, depending on whether you start in the fall or spring semester, what transfer credits you may have (if any), and which Arts & Sciences courses and electives you take and when you take them.

The sample academic plan is for informational purposes only. To determine your academic plan, please meet with an academic advisor.

Identification, recognition and calculations associated with basic electricity, including Ohm's Law, resistance, capacitance, inductance in AC and DC circuits, as well as solid state principles of diodes, power supplies and transistors.

Design, build, and troubleshoot digital circuits. Debug and program microprocessors and microcontrollers for various operations and interface to external devices. Analyze digital and microprocessor circuits using industry standard test equipment.

Identification, recognition and calculations associated with combinational and sequential logic circuits as well as internal architecture of microprocessors and microcontrollers, programming, logic operations, memory mapping, addressing, data transfer, and system control.